... other woman in the world can. Not that she has no faults; I dare say she has many more than I see myself."(Attenborough 89) Gandhi felt that there was an indescribable bond in Hinduism. Hinduism was not an exclusive religion. In it there was room for the worship of all the prophets in the world. It is not a missionary religion in the ... ordinary sense of the term. Hinduism tells every one to worship God according to his faith or Dharma and so it shares a bond with all the religions. The most distinctive and the largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture was the doctrine of ahi...

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... for the Japanese tendency to locate divinity in a nature populated with 800,000 kami and to equate ethics with acting so as to honor one's family (Lardner 125)."" The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens and stirred ... subjective tradition that other traditions in Japan. Each household can be tied to a different kami than their neighbor and therefore can build its own individual bond. This obviously would come in handy for the newly married woman who knows nobody when she arrives to the village, sometim...

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... but their union is very powerful and santeros use the group for extreme and difficult cases (Gonzalez-Wippler 1973: 103). ILE An ile is a spiritual family. In Santeria, people are tied by ceremonial or spiritual kinship of the Ile. In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, ... but by being in the same orisha "house-. A family is formed of initiates who share the same padrino (godfather) or madrina (godmother). The godparents, who are also Santeria priests, guide the initiates and teach ... them the ways of their orisha house and other philosophies and practices of Santer...

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... domestication was common in assisting on the cultivation process. Many former African kingdoms and Empires traced their origin from such kin group and Decent that tied them with same cultural bond and believes system. For example the former Mali Empire with its capital city as Timbuktu, was made of the Mandingoes speaking people who claimed from Shounthiata Kiata. the Songhai Empire ... it is primitive and sinful if one is a Christian. (Haase, 1978).This progressively created a situation where the links of fusion of the age-sets, the detaching of the youth from family and clan to do soc...

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